(A picture from three years ago of Magda with two creatures she loves much more than she loves me.)
Every year around the day of her birthday, my wife gets a radio show birthday present from me. What a cheapskate! you say. Indeed, the time I spend working on the show is time I could be spending with her! But our life doesn't really work that way. She's content in her downtime to be on her favorite sofa with her favorite people in the world, who happen to be dogs & cats. Four of each, actually, in our house, & a game she likes to play with me is "Guess How Many Dogs I Have!" That's when I try to decide how many of our hounds are under the blanket she has draped about herself. When the answer is four, she squeals with glee.
The first radio show I did for her featured music she loved. If I had continued to do that, you'd hear the same Magda-approved songs around her birthday every year. She would be fine with that. I am a bit more restless. I began to use her birthday as a chance to play songs about birthdays. There are a lot of them, but of course the majority aren't very good. I've been doing this birthday thing for eleven of the thirteen years I've done Self Help Radio. (I don't know why I skipped two years. Those early days are something of a blur at this point.) Ten of those years have featured birthday songs. I am not entirely certain I can keep playing unique recordings of birthday songs into the near future. But this year I have enough to make a solid show.
This is how much I love the silly woman who deigned to spend her life with me.
Maybe it's your birthday too? Maybe soon? Maybe we just missed it? In any case, unless you find birthday songs as annoying as Christmas songs, the show today is a birthday show & it's on from 4-6pm on 88.1 fm WRFL in Lexington + online at wrfl dot fm. I'll archive it tomorrow like I do unless I eat too much birthday cake tonight.
Wait - I won't - the birthday girl will!
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